Adrienne Rich Quotes About Son

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  • As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

    Mother   Heart   Son  
  • Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.

    Mother   Son   Men  
    Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company
  • How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

    Daughter   Mother   Son  
    Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.470, W. W. Norton & Company
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